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Harvard will consolidate health plans for employees from four administrators to two beginning July 1, the University announced last month. The two plans to be dropped—Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan—together enroll 19 percent of employees, but University officials said the transition will cause “minimal disruption” because of the plans’ similar structures. “Health benefits are not changing,” said Peter V. Marsden, who chairs Harvard’s advisory committee on health benefits. “What?...
...Hence the appeal, for Putin at least, of a compromise accepting the presence of the missile shield on its borders in exchange for keeping its southern neighbors out of NATO. It remains to be seen, however, whether President Bush - who talked passionately on Tuesday about the need for NATO to admit Georgia and Ukraine - is ready to split the difference...
...trio of long-haired teenagers grasped the plaza wall to shield their bodies as hundreds of youths kicked and punched them while filming the beating on cell phone cameras. "Kill the emos," shouted the assailants, who had organized over the Internet to launch the attack in Mexico's central city of Queretaro. After police eventually steamed in and made arrests, the bloody victims lay sobbing on the concrete waiting for ambulances while the mob ran through the nearby streets laughing and cheering. Mexican news footage of the attacks
...other House mascots would not let the Gorilla have the last word.The Currier Tree responded by saying, “there’s nothing you can be better than a tall oak tree. Mather’s mascot doesn’t even match their shield. They’re the, what are they, the tigers? And there’s a gorilla. It doesn’t make any sense.”The outdoor raucousness only continued what began several hours earlier in the freshman dorms.Waiting in line at Annenberg, Marissa A. Babin ’11?...
...Those who fear a missile strike on the American mainland from North Korea or Iran - not that either is anywhere close to achieving such capability - the investment in a missile shield, even one whose efficacy is far from clearly established, may seem worthwhile. To those who believe the more salient and insidious threats are those of the type we experienced on 9/11, this shield against a handful of rogue missiles represents an unfortunate diversion of funds that could be used far more effectively to defend...